"He is beginning to get it" about the whole jihad thing, you mean? Somehow I doubt it. I think what happened is that he got stuck between Iraq and a hard place--ie the Left's contention that Afghnaistan is the "good war" to Bush's "bad" Iraq war. Now he finds that exticating the U.S. from the "good" war isn't quite as simple as he'd thought, and he's trying to have it both ways--get "al Qaeda" (the enemy), pretend the Taliban isn't part of the global jihad, and hightail it outta there no matter what in 18 months.

"WASHINGTON — Barack Obama split the difference in his Nobel speech, laying down a doctrine that will likely define his presidency: a steadfast defense of warfare against evil, praise of nonviolence and exhortations for mankind to affirm the "spark of the divine" in everyone."